Jesus teaches that our faith is a powerful resource for everyday life with God. Yet, like the disciples, we struggle to believe our faith impacts our world. In this message, we look at Jesus' teaching on the power of faith and answer these questions: 1. How powerful is our faith? 2. Where does the power of our faith come from? 3. How do we exert the power of our faith?

Speaker: Garrick Hanger

Scripture: Matthew 21:18-22

We often make faith fairly complicated and difficult, but the message of the gospel is very simple. If we simply believe and confess, we can be saved.

Scripture: Romans 10:8-15, Matthew 11:28, Acts 4:12

Faith is not something we begin, but that begins in us. Our faith is pioneered, authored, and founded by Christ. Since Christ has begun our faith, he will also perfect it.

Scriptures: Hebrews 12:1-3, Hebrews 11:17-31, Hebrews 8:12, 2 Timothy 2:13

Hebrews 11 is a call to well established Christians to take a deeper hold of faith. The faith that God desires is intellectual, relational, and passionate.

We often are confused about how we should approach the communion table. Should we come in joy, as to a feast, or come with reverence, considering the cost of our salvation? This Sunday, Shawn teaches that we should come and remember, we should come in awe, we should come slowly, and come together.

Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 12:27, 1 Corinthians 11:23-32, Colossians 2:13-15

In Communion we affirm our participation in both the Cross of Christ and the Body of Christ. In this sermon we learn how we participate and the benefits of our participation. We also learn how our mutually shared benefits bind us together as one body making us willing to sacrifice for others.  

1 Corinthians 10:14-17

Life has a way of knocking us off balance and disorienting us. Communion is God’s gracious gift to us, to reorient us through the pain and difficulties of life.

In our final week in Here and Now, we look at the final hours of the cross of Christ. Even surrounded by incredible hate and rejection, Jesus still offered grace to others. That experience of grace profoundly impacted both centurion and crowd and gives to us a model about reaching others who are profoundly different than us.

In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus is an example of honesty and authenticity for us to follow.

Pastor Garrick speaks on the gentleness of Jesus and encourages us to respond like Jesus to the world around us.